Philip Yancey Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

  Philip Yancey

  Heart, Surrender, Power Of Love

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.66, Harper Collins

• Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

  Philip Yancey

  War, Fall, Heart

• You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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  Heart, Law, Knowing

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.195, Harper Collins

• I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

• Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Heart, People

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.51, Harper Collins

• Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

• Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped." God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.

  Philip Yancey

  Running, Heart, Loving Life

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